Climate and food inequality: the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response

Satgar, Vishwas; Cherry, Jane

doi:10.1080/14747731.2019.1652467

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“…Challenging the emphasis on industrial production and trade that dominates food security discourse, it interprets hunger and malnutrition as a consequence of food inequality. It holds the corporate food regime responsible for driving dietary transitions, eroding peasant livelihoods and disrupting ecosystems and therefore asserts people's right to govern food systems (De Keyser et al, 2018; Bernstein, 2014; McMichael, 2005; Satgar & Cherry, 2019). However, food sovereignty narratives remain unclear on how a resurgent peasantry (portrayed as capitalism's other) could reliably produce and supply adequate surplus to sustain large, nonfarming urban populations without global trade (Bernstein, 2014; Tornaghi & DeHaene, 2020).…”

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“…Food sovereignty, as articulated by the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign, proposes a deep, just transition developing solutions ‘from below.’ It aims to reduce food inequality by cultivating prefigurative pathways—“radical practices that build components of a desired future in the present” (Tornaghi & DeHaene, 2020)—in the interstices of capitalism, growing a distributed solidarity economy that decommodifies and recommons food systems. Though grounded in local agential practices including cooperatives, collectively owned seed banks, peoples’ markets, and peer learning, the campaign aims to develop broad networks and alliances (Satgar & Cherry, 2019; Bennie & Satgoor, 2018; Williams & Satgar, 2019).…”

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“…Neoliberal urbanisms and the industrial food systems that sustain them drive multiple environmental, societal, and health crises, requiring urgent transitions toward sustainability (Sonnino et al, 2014; Willett et al., 2019; Tornaghi & DeHaene, 2020). While agroecology and food sovereignty discourses champion particularly radical transitions (Bernstein, 2014; De Keyser et al, 2018; Satgar & Cherry, 2019), urban food security researchers interpret these problems as food systems failures requiring systemic governance strategies (Smit, 2016; Haysom, 2015; Moragues‐Faus & Morgan, 2015; Parsons & Hawkes, 2018; Pereira & Drimie, 2016; Pereira & Ruysenaar, 2012; Sonnino, 2009; Wiskerke, 2016). Impulses toward systemic food governance have emerged in the South African cities of Johannesburg (CoJ) and Cape Town (CoCT) (Haysom, 2015; Kroll et al, 2017).…”

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Agroecology and the metropolitan biopolitics of food in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Kroll

2021

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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As urban food systems erode the ecological foundations of society, researchers advocate multi-level and adaptive governance to promote transitions toward sustainability.Agroecological discourse proposes transition to resilient, localized, and democratic city-region food systems, but neoliberal interpretations subvert radical aspirations.In the South African metropoles of Johannesburg and Cape Town, the governance terrain entails a concentrated industrial food system providing large, impoverished populations with unhealthy food derived from monocultures and transported along global value chains. Governing these urban food systems toward agroecological transition requires engagement with state governance mechanisms and rationalities. Considering state capabilities to promote agroecological transitions, the paper shows that fragmented institutional structures, policy patchworks, intersecting logics of control, and divergent ideologies constitute an ambiguous governance terrain posing major hurdles to transition. For metropolitan states to muster the will and assemble means for deep transformation of food systems and dominant state rationalities, a compelling alternative narrative must emerge. This requires persistent strategic engagement between officials and agroecological movements. To cultivate fertile political ground for seeds of deep, just transitions to take root, agroecology movements must grasp the nettle of metropolitan state capabilities.

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Agroecology and the metropolitan biopolitics of food in Cape Town and Johannesburg

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2021

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“…The United Nations [30] established the Sustainable Development Goals for the 2030 Agenda, whose second goal was putting an end to hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture. This was added, given the food and agricultural sectors' capacity of offering key solutions for development, as a vital actor in the elimination of hunger and poverty [31].…”

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Food Autonomy within Food Sovereignty: Evidence from a Structural Model

2022

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Food sovereignty as a model to solve food problems is being used in political, economic, and agricultural thought, but academic literature does not offer insight into its impact and the dimension of food autonomy. We have chosen to study Ecuador, given that, in 2008, the country reformed its constitution and adopted the concept of food sovereignty as a right of the Ecuadorian people, being the first country to do so. In this article, we apply the multiple indicators and multiple causes model to uncover scientific findings with the observable data available, and estimate the phenomenon of food sovereignty, which will be called the latent variable. The article aims to determine the main indicators associated with a synthetic index of food sovereignty and one that integrates a measurement model. In order to meet the goal of this research, eight hypotheses are raised, of which four are confirmatory and four are exploratory. The exploratory hypotheses are given because the theoretical foundations contradict themselves in favor of and against the latent variable. The findings of the statistical model relate to inflation, cereal yield, agricultural-value added, prevalence of malnutrition, food export, and food import as causes and indicators that are part of food sovereignty.

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“…De Vynck et al 2016b) have advanced beyond a narrow focus on plants. An account of how to address food system challenges in a country such as South Africa that has historical deficits and rising inequality (Satgar and Cherry 2020) and at the same time contains some of the most biodiverse hotspots in the world (Myers et al 2000) may shed light on similar challenges elsewhere. It may also help to inform regional and international policy on NUS and their roles in enhancing food security.…”

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Leveraging the potential of wild food for healthy, sustainable, and equitable local food systems: learning from a transformation lab in the Western Cape region

Pereira

Kushitor²,

Cramer³

et al. 2022

Sustain Sci

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Food insecurity and diet-related diseases do not only have detrimental effects to human health, but are also underpinned by food systems that are environmentally unsustainable and culturally disconnected. Ensuring access to a healthy, affordable, and sustainable diet is one of the greatest challenges facing many low- and middle-income countries such as South Africa. These challenges in accessing a diverse diet often persist despite biocultural richness. For example, South Africa is globally recognised for its rich biodiversity, an ecologically unrivalled coastline, and a rich body of traditional knowledge amongst wild-food users. In this paper, we explore the potential that coastal wild foods as neglected and underutilised species (NUS) can play in local food systems in South Africa’s Western Cape Province. Following a previously established transformation lab (T-Lab) method, here we report the observations and outcomes emerging from a two-day workshop held in May 2019 with a group of 40 actors involved in the local food system in diverse ways. Farmers, small-scale fishers, indigenous knowledge holders, representatives from non-profit organisations, chefs, bartenders, academics, activists, conservationists, and government officials were brought together with the aim of strengthening an emerging coalition of coastal wild food actors. Findings highlighted the existence of a fledgling economy for coastal wild foods, driven by high-end chefs. The T-Lab was essentially a tool of knowledge co-production around food system transformation and helped to surface deeply embedded issues on land, race, history, and culture that warrant engagement if a better food system is to emerge. In a country that is drought prone and vulnerable to climate change, a more resilient and sustainable food system is a necessity. But defining alternative governance systems to shift towards a healthier, more sustainable, and more equitable food system will require concerted effort across all stakeholders.

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Climate and food inequality: the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Agroecology and the metropolitan biopolitics of food in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Agroecology and the metropolitan biopolitics of food in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Food Autonomy within Food Sovereignty: Evidence from a Structural Model

Leveraging the potential of wild food for healthy, sustainable, and equitable local food systems: learning from a transformation lab in the Western Cape region

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